Epes Sargent

Colonel Epes Sargent (July 12, 1690 – December 6, 1762) was an American landowner, militia officer, judge, and politician from Gloucester, Massachusetts.

Early life and family Sargent was born on July 12, 1690, in Gloucester, Massachusetts. He was the seventh of fifteen children born to William Sargent II (1659–1707), who came to Gloucester before 1678, and Mary Duncan (died 1724), daughter of Peter Duncan and step-granddaughter of Samuel Symonds, deputy Governor.

Personal life Catherine Winthrop Sargent, second wife of Col. Sargent, from a portrait by Smybert which is in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

On April 1, 1720, he married Esther McCarty (1701–1743), daughter of Florence McCarty, one of the founders of the first Protestant Episcopal society in New England. Ignatius Sargent (b. 1724). William Sargent (1733–1736), who died young.

Sargent died on December 6, 1762, in Salem and his remains were removed to Gloucester for burial.

Descendants His grandchildren included Daniel Sargent (1764–1842), a politician who was close friends with President John Quincy Adams, Henry Sargent (1770–1845), a painter, Lucius Manlius Sargent (1786–1867), a temperance advocate, Judith Sargent Murray (1751–1820), a poet and advocate for women's rights, and Winthrop Sargent (1753–1820), Governor of the Mississippi Territory.

The artist John Singer Sargent is a descendant of Epes's son Winthrop.